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From: eric@chronon.UUCP (Eric Black)
Newsgroups: net.unix,net.lang,net.legal
Subject: Re: Are any parts of UNIX in public domain?
Message-ID: <235@chronon.chronon.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 1-May-86 14:26:39 EDT
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In article <512@gould9.UUCP> joel@gould9.UUCP (Joel West) writes:
>I hereby attest that I have not looked at any copyrighted or
>license-restricted source code, and would like to place the
>following in the public domain: :-)
>
>#!/bin/sh
># Shar script
>cat >true <<//EOF
>exit 0
>//EOF
>chmod 755 true
>cat >false <<//EOF
>exit 1
>//EOF
>chmod 755 false
>-- 

A clear case of independent creation!  An idea whose time has come!
(Of course, the question can be asked, "What other possible reasonable
way could there be to do it?").

-- 
Eric Black   "Garbage In, Gospel Out"
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